Whitney McIntyre Miller, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies at Chapman University.  She centers her research and scholarship around peace leadership and is one of the pioneering scholars of the field. Dr. McIntyre Miller also studies issues of community development and leadership, with a particular focus on postconflict societies.  She has researched and worked in Sierra Leone and Bosnia-Herzegovina, has lived in Russia, and has traveled to over 60 countries.  She has also worked in the areas of international development, refugee return and resettlement, nonviolence, and elections monitoring. She has served the co-convener of the Peace Leadership Affinity Group of the International Leadership Association, and as a board member of the Community Development Society.